Letter to Chuck Alvey EDAWN
Dear Mr Alvey...
| Re: Marketing campaign, "We're Serious about manufacturing” EDAWN gets serious about attracting manufacturing to Nevada rgj • March 12, 2010 and...... EDAWN very serious about manufacturing rgj • March 21, 2010 Before you can get “serious” on manufacturing.. you’d better get serious on education! When I came to Northern NV seventeen years ago, we did not have an educated workforce; and... we still do not have an educated workforce. I believe its worse now than ever (isn’t it strange, ignoring this problem doesn’t seem to fix it)? The only decent “manufacturing” vocational/workforce education in Northern NV is in Elko (at GBC). While these programs (here) have received hundreds of thousands of dollars, it seems that when it comes to actually funding these programs... the money has been “re-allocated” . Clearly the Community Colleges here are not interested in manufacturing / vocational training (they see it as beneath them), and now that the money has slowed, there is no way they will fund any type of “dirty fingernail” programs (and, any money that industry donates will go to fund “soft skills”, which, while needed, do not provide a workforce that is ready for the plant floor). I call on you to explore private, for profit, workforce training. Currently it is next to impossible to use state money to fund these programs. Industry that has the resources already use this type of training. It is expensive, but the results, which are provable and repeatable, well justify the cost. Without a trained workforce, and no means to raise the skill level of the workforce, your marketing plan is doomed to failure. Industry knows what questions to ask, I suggest you have some solid answers. Thank You Charles L Dickinson Dickinson & Associates Industrial Training NTT project based Instructor |
posted by cl @ 2:39 PM
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